Syncerus acoelotus is an extinct species of bovid closely related to the Cape buffalo.

It lived during the Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene.

[2] Fossils of this species were first found in the Olduvai gorge in 1962, and it was described in 1978.

[1] S. acoelotus was larger than, and probably ancestral to, its living relative.

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